I noticed something when I was reading a news story this evening. The hat pictured below, worn by Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, in my opinion bears resemblance to the style of headgear I've seen in pictures of Coptic Orthodox clergy. (Picture from this article)

Is that a coincidence? Are these types of miters based on the style people were wearing in the Middle East and North Africa a long time ago? Who had them first, does anyone know- Christians or Jews?

As mentioned in the linked thread, it is very hard to get accurate information about headgear in the distant past and all communities appear to have undergone periods of very great transformation.

Hey, I thought we never changed

I'd always just assumed we inherited the turban from the Arabs and the Greeks adopted theirs from the Ottoman Fez. So, it was interesting to read about the wearing of turbans going back before the Islamic Conquest.

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